Category: ITnews

ACMA proposes digital ID for prepaid mobile SIM verification
23
Sep
2025

ACMA proposes digital ID for prepaid mobile SIM verification

Australian telcos could soon accept Digital ID to verify the identity of prepaid mobile phone users under a proposal floated by the…

Alleged Scattered Spider hacker surrenders to US police
23
Sep
2025

Alleged Scattered Spider hacker surrenders to US police

Another alleged affiliate of the high-profile Scattered Spider network of cybercriminals has surrendered himself to police in Las Vegas. The…

Nvidia to invest US$100 billion in OpenAI
23
Sep
2025

Nvidia to invest US$100 billion in OpenAI

Nvidia will invest up to US$100 billion ($151 billion) in OpenAI and supply it with data centre chips, marking a…

Oracle names insiders as co-CEOs
23
Sep
2025

Oracle names insiders as co-CEOs

Oracle has named insiders Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia as co-CEOs, replacing Safra Catz, who was instrumental in shaping the…

CBA builds Lumos, an AI-driven accelerator to prepare applications for cloud
23
Sep
2025

CBA builds Lumos, an AI-driven accelerator to prepare applications for cloud

CBA has built a multi-agent workflow that covers every step required to prepare an application for migration to the cloud,…

NSW Education AI tool set to launch for students from October
22
Sep
2025

NSW Education AI tool set to launch for students from October

All NSW public school students from Year 5 onwards will gain access to the state’s ChatGPT-style platform, NSWEduChat, from October…

Optus accused of low-effort,
22
Sep
2025

Optus accused of low-effort, “inaccurate” outage notifications

Optus initially characterised its Triple Zero outage in emails to government officials on Thursday afternoon as impacting just 10 calls,…

Optus initiates change freeze on
21
Sep
2025

Optus initiates change freeze on “network system”

Optus CEO Stephen Rue has placed “an immediate halt to further changes in our network system”, pending a review and…

Finance to save $17m by 2029 through IT insourcing
21
Sep
2025

H-1B visa crackdown upends Indian IT industry’s playbook

India’s $283 billion ($429 billion) information technology sector will have to overhaul its decades-old strategy of rotating skilled talent into…

Optus' Triple Zero failure
21
Sep
2025

Optus’ Triple Zero failure “unlikely” to have contributed to baby’s death

An Optus network failure is now considered “unlikely” to have “contributed” to the death of an eight-week-old baby in South…

European airports snarled by cyberattack
21
Sep
2025

European airports snarled by cyberattack

A cyberattack at a provider of check-in and boarding systems disrupted operations on Saturday at several major European airports including…

Optus to answer privacy court case stemming from 2022 data breach
20
Sep
2025

Optus firewall upgrade behind 13-hour Triple Zero outage

Optus CEO Stephen Rue said that a “regular” firewall upgrade at 12.30am on Thursday caused Triple Zero calls on the…